Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in the life aspirations of young, middle-class…
Power over Spice is power over all This is the opening line of Dune: Part Two, spoken in the throat-singing ceremonial language of the fearsome Sardaukar warriors. It is…
India’s millions of stray dogs coexist largely peacefully with humans, however, an increase in dog attacks and the prevalence of rabies cases has sparked calls to introduce stronger…
[Hani Culture Park,] Nannuoshan [Hani Administrative] Village, Gelanghe Hani Ethnic Township, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited December 26, 2023. …
The African island nation played a central—but little-known—role in the rise of the global sugar trade based on enslaved labor. To uncover this past, a team launched the…
Inte sällan framhärdar antropologer att antropologi har särskilt mycket att lära oss om tiden vi lever i, inte minst genom att tänka bortom det konventionella och begripliggöra det…
Inte sällan framhärdar antropologer att antropologi har särskilt mycket att lära oss om tiden vi lever i, inte minst genom att tänka bortom det konventionella och begripliggöra det…
Food – Media – Senses: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Christina Bartz, Jens Ruchatz, and Eva Wattolik (editors). Transcript, 2023. 330 pps. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6479-9 Emily Contois (University of …
We all want to do fieldwork well. But what do such “researcher mindsets” do to our bodies when conducting participatory observation? Anna Notsu and Jan Jansen address some…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/other-indonesians-9780197563687?cc=us&lang=en& Jessica Peng: I would like to begin by asking you to reflect upon the trajectory of your…
The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2024 is Maria-Theres Schuler for her book Disability and Aid. An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee C…
A poet-anthropologist of the Chickasaw Nation honors infant remains historically used in teaching collections at the University of Illinois. “Infant, Name Once Known” is part of the collection…
The film submission deadline for this year’s NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival is 26 April 2024. The festival will be held in Kabelvåg, Lofoten, northern Norway, 4-7 September…
A way too long overdue update on the blog… But I am too lazy to put them in proper categories. So much good stuff is out there and…
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2024 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition. The association … More
The ethnic Chinese have had a long and problematic history in Indonesia, commonly stereotyped as a market-dominant minority with dubious political loyalty toward Indonesia. For over three decades…
State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (Cambridge UP, 2023) is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the…
What role do China and other Asian countries play in the global amber trade? And, what can we learn about the big challenges of our time by studying…
Have you ever wondered how anthropology intersects with personal growth and academia? In this compelling episode of This Anthro Life, the discussion delves into the multifaceted world of…
The increased demand for distant cures amid heightened concerns about infection in healthcare facilities, coupled with the “great resignation” in medicine since the COVID pandemic, have together crea…
The Distance Cure and The Doctor Who Wasn’t There are political books about medical media. Zeavin offers illuminating analyses of a range of distant psychotherapies: epistolary analysis, telephonic…
“all new media deal in futures” -Jeremy Greene “automation is the dream of autonomy” -Hannah Zeavin It was at once an odd experience and an exhilarating one. Sitting…